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RE: By the Numbers: Another Solo Global War AAR - 9/12/2020 11:37:26 PM   
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Status: offline 		Turn 12. Jul/Aug 1941. Axis #7. The Eastern Front. USSR Include Notionals?

To include or not to include the notionals? In the end the USSR considered the risk of a breakthrough too great to include the notionals against the German paradrop. So no notionals and the paratroopers land unopposed. A breakthrough in an adjacent hex ensures that the Wehrmacht quickly links up with (i.e., stacks with) the paratroopers.






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RE: By the Numbers: Another Solo Global War AAR - 9/12/2020 11:38:08 PM   
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RE: By the Numbers: Another Solo Global War AAR - 9/12/2020 11:38:53 PM   
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RE: By the Numbers: Another Solo Global War AAR - 9/12/2020 11:40:44 PM   
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RE: By the Numbers: Another Solo Global War AAR - 9/12/2020 11:42:19 PM   
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RE: By the Numbers: Another Solo Global War AAR - 9/12/2020 11:48:08 PM   
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Clearly, there was a significant consequence to stuffing the border. Well, at least the way I did it for the Soviets.




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RE: By the Numbers: Another Solo Global War AAR - 9/12/2020 11:48:35 PM   
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RE: By the Numbers: Another Solo Global War AAR - 9/12/2020 11:49:02 PM   
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RE: By the Numbers: Another Solo Global War AAR - 9/12/2020 11:50:14 PM   
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Status: offline 		Turn 12. Jul/Aug 1941. End of Turn. Partisans & USE.

Partisan: 8 countries check for partisans with no garrison checks triggered. (1) China=93, (2) Malaya=21, (3) NEI=13, (4) Burma=35, (5) India=46, (6) Poland=66, (7) Yugoslavia=52, (8) FIC=20. Only close calls were Yugoslavia, which missed by 1 or is it 2 and NEI which missed by 2 or is it 3.

US Entry: Before chit. Ge/It: 35/22 & Jpn: 40/21. US decides to add chit to Ge/It. Val=4 => GE/IT: 41/22 & JPN: 42/21. US chooses: (1) option 26, "Relocate fleet to Pearl Harbor". Jpn Tension D10(<=6)=10, no (additional) tension. (2) option 19, "Resources to USSR". Ge/It Tension (<=8)=5, 4-chit moved to tension. Ge/It: 35/28, JPN: 40/23. (3) option 23, "Freeze Japanese assets". JPN Tension (<=7)=1, 4-chit moved to tension. Ge/IT: 33/30, JPN: 34/29. The US will need now to show US entry option displine. They're on the optimum tension row (24-31) to maximize chance of successful DOW against both German & Japan PROVIDED they can get entry levels of 44 or above. The US will forgo additional entry options in order to drive up DOW success.




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RE: By the Numbers: Another Solo Global War AAR - 9/13/2020 12:18:02 AM   
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Status: offline 		AAR Narrative Shift?

Not sure how much of a narrative shift this is but I've decided to let the narrative for this AAR flow primarily through my combat logs. Hence, the rationale I spent the last 3 or 4 days working to finish off a consolidated combat log format and import the three different logs (naval, land & air) into that new format.

I do, when I remember, run spell check on these logs. However, I generally don't review and correct the logs for grammatical or other errors. Though, I will correct such errors if I happen to "randomly" run across them. These logs are made at the moment of the combats they are capturing. My intention is to try to let you in on the bits and pieces of my thinking at those times and not worry so much about grammar or even spelling. I do hope that you can overlook such errors, which may be many, in the spirit of the narrative I'm attempting to produce.

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RE: By the Numbers: Another Solo Global War AAR - 9/13/2020 1:04:53 AM   
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Status: offline 		The Russians will miss those 2 ARM well into 1942. Those should never appear within Stuka range unless well covered by the Red Army Air Force, which appears to be intact. Both sides seem a little over-interested in the north here. The money is in the south.

Many Allied players of WiF will automatically lay down an AMPH for the CW in 1939. Such a build would be keeping these Italians quite a bit less interested in foreign expeditions to help Adolf.

‘Stuffing’ the border is a powerful Russian strategy that can seriously disrupt Axis war plans and is very good for the western Allies’ convoy lines - so they can quickly deploy a significant Murmansk run. But I am not sure how it would work with your requirements for Russian chits on the Japanese border so this is a different game altogether.

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RE: By the Numbers: Another Solo Global War AAR - 9/13/2020 1:44:47 AM   
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ORIGINAL: brian brian

The Russians will miss those 2 ARM well into 1942. Those should never appear within Stuka range unless well covered by the Red Army Air Force, which appears to be intact. Both sides seem a little over-interested in the north here. The money is in the south.

Many Allied players of WiF will automatically lay down an AMPH for the CW in 1939. Such a build would be keeping these Italians quite a bit less interested in foreign expeditions to help Adolf.

‘Stuffing’ the border is a powerful Russian strategy that can seriously disrupt Axis war plans and is very good for the western Allies’ convoy lines - so they can quickly deploy a significant Murmansk run. But I am not sure how it would work with your requirements for Russian chits on the Japanese border so this is a different game altogether.

On the upside I think I've repeated Stalin's error of ignoring the Nazi buildup in the spring of 1941 and possibly to the extent of Soviet losses. Now the downside is that I may have killed the Soviet Union. Only time will tell but I'm not sure if they can recover from this. Though, I have seen them come back from situations this dire.

With respect to requiring Soviet chits on the Asian front, maybe in the future if I require that then I don't include the optional rule that makes it easier to break the pact in the latter half of 1941. That might be the appropriate balance?

Also, the Sitzkreig on the Finnish front is interesting. Basically I have the Finns on the sidelines watching the show along with 2 Soviet armies and 1 division in Murmansk.

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RE: By the Numbers: Another Solo Global War AAR - 9/13/2020 2:09:26 AM   
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Status: offline 		I've been following a thread over in the WIF groups, Grand Strategy Question where some of the discussion has been on oil. Specifically, not using saved oil for production but for moving units only. Coupled with the change oil rules in WiF CE, I'm very serious thinking about at this point forward (turn 13 and beyond) including the two house rules that: (1) saved oil cannot be used for production and (2) only saved oil can be used to reorg units.

The arguments for the former that impressed me was that if convoy lines are disrupted then a country should face the consequences that turn for the disruption.

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RE: By the Numbers: Another Solo Global War AAR - 9/13/2020 5:42:55 PM   
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RE: By the Numbers: Another Solo Global War AAR - 9/13/2020 5:43:24 PM   
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RE: By the Numbers: Another Solo Global War AAR - 9/13/2020 5:43:46 PM   
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RE: By the Numbers: Another Solo Global War AAR - 9/13/2020 5:47:21 PM   
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Germany destroys the blue factory at Dnepropetrovsk, which the Soviets didn't rail out in time. Strategic error on the Soviets part. They had time but elected to rail the blue factory at Stalino. Not good for the Soviet official, or officials, who made this "error". Stalin will ensure that it'll be the last error they ever make.




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RE: By the Numbers: Another Solo Global War AAR - 9/13/2020 5:47:50 PM   
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RE: By the Numbers: Another Solo Global War AAR - 9/13/2020 5:48:39 PM   
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RE: By the Numbers: Another Solo Global War AAR - 9/13/2020 5:49:03 PM   
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RE: By the Numbers: Another Solo Global War AAR - 9/13/2020 5:49:25 PM   
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RE: By the Numbers: Another Solo Global War AAR - 9/13/2020 5:49:47 PM   
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RE: By the Numbers: Another Solo Global War AAR - 9/13/2020 5:58:34 PM   
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Status: offline 		AAR Outline (revised).

For those who might be interested I've made a couple of minor revisions to my AAR outline. The revised outline I'm now using for posting is:

1. CWAKE (Combat tally, Weather, Actions, Key Events).
2. Trade
3. Theater(s)
- Combat logs (as applicable)
- Maps/Screen Caps (as applicable)
- Commentary (as applicable)
4. Partisans (may be covered in part or in whole elsewhere)
5. Destroyed, Repair and, as applicable, Scrapped, Lend Lease
6. US Entry
7. Economics (Oil, PPs, BPs, Builds)
8. Build Spirals (Axis, Allied)
9. Factory/Resource Destruction (if applicable)
10. Global Maps (Control, Units, Active Axis, Active Allied)
11. Victory Totals.

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RE: By the Numbers: Another Solo Global War AAR - 9/19/2020 9:24:58 PM   
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RE: By the Numbers: Another Solo Global War AAR - 9/19/2020 9:32:42 PM   
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Axis: No changes to discretionary trade, which is: (1) Germany to Italy 5 non-oil.

Allied: Following changes made to discretionary trade: (1) CW starts 2 non-oil to USSR. Unchanged discretionary: (1) Free France to China 1 non-oil. (2) US to CW, 2 oil.




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RE: By the Numbers: Another Solo Global War AAR - 9/19/2020 9:37:57 PM   
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Initiative: No advantage, allies win ties. AX=3, AL=7. Axis lose the first roll and can but don't request a re-roll. Allies win the initiative and elect to move first.

Allied #1. Weather: Allies hoping for a high weather roll in order for bad weather to hit the Eastern Front. The die roll looked to "finish" on a 1 but didn't quite finish that last roll. The final result was a 7, which was modified to an 8. Needed rain, from the Soviet perspective, in both the Arctic and North Temperate.




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RE: By the Numbers: Another Solo Global War AAR - 9/19/2020 9:44:35 PM   
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RE: By the Numbers: Another Solo Global War AAR - 9/19/2020 9:46:21 PM   
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RE: By the Numbers: Another Solo Global War AAR - 9/19/2020 9:46:56 PM   
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RE: By the Numbers: Another Solo Global War AAR - 9/19/2020 9:51:51 PM   
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1. On the plus side the allies got the initiative, are moving first and rain has hit all along the Eastern Front.
2. On the downside, the rain has put 4 inf armies, 1 mtn corps and 3 divisions of various types out of supply. 3. Also, the Soviets have no HQs in the south (i.e., Ukraine) so supply there is very precarious. In the north it isn't much better either.




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